Imagining Palestine

Tahrir Hamdi is Programme Coordinator of English Language and Literature, and Associate Professor at the Arab Open University, Jordan. She is assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly, the journal founded by Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. She has published widely on Arabic literature, Edward Said and postcolonial studies in journals such as Arab Studies Quarterly, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, the International Journal of Iraqi Studies, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Race & Class and elsewhere.

Introduction: Beginning with Palestine
•Imagining Palestine
•Origins, Beginnings and Palestine
Chapter One: The Restless Spirit: Palestine Theorized
•The Birth of Resistance Literature
•Edward Said’s Theoretical Oeuvre and Palestine
•The Arab Intellectual and the Critical Consciousness
Chapter Two: “Exile is the World Inside”: Poetry and Palestine
•Politics and Poetics, Occupation and Exile
•The Palestinian Memoir: the Personal and the National
Chapter Three: Writings on the Wall: The Voices of Occupied Palestine
•The Art and Song of Palestine: From Naji Al Ali to the Apartheid Wall
•Thinking from the Inside: Intellectuals, Political Prisoners and Activists
Conclusion: A Living Cause
•On Lost and Living Causes: Continuing the Conversation with Said
•The Present Moment and the Construction of Palestinian Identity